The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

For the First Time Ever, Rush is Wrong

“I’m not going to do Twitter. There’s no way to make any money on Twitter. Twitter is just fad type stuff.” — Rush Limbaugh Twitter is a communication tool. Millions of people — including Alyssa Milano’s 1,038,358 followers — use Twitter to communicate. And you can’t communicate with those people if you’re not on Twitter. […]

Lisa’s LP ‘Lifeboat’ Bid?

In the comments of yesterday’s post about Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s continuing push for the Alaska Libertarian Party nomination, commenter “Carl” offered a theory that libertarian blogger Thomas Knapp finds sensible: What she’s looking for is a lifeboat — a nice, lucrative job as a corporate lobbyist, VP of a “defense” contractor firm, something like that that keeps her […]

Texas Burning

Charges of vote fraud in the Lone Star State: On Tuesday, August 24, Harris County’s tax assessor-collector, Leo Vasquez, held a press conference in which he detailed what he called systematic and organized voter registration fraud across the county. . . . What happened next is what threatens everything. In the overnight/early morning hours of Saturday, August […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Murkowski Meets Personally With Alaska LP Officials UPDATE: Bitney, Halcro Behind Push

Alaska Republican sources confirm the report by Eric Dondero that Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski had lunch in Anchorage today with Libertarian Party senatorial candidate Dave Haase and state LP chairman Scott Kohlhaas. One source said that when Haase was asked about the meeting afterwards, he indicated that he had made no decision about Murkowski’s effort to […]

Because Fedoras Are Sexy: Ed Driscoll Has a ‘Hot American-Cuban Wife’

He reveals this by way of pushing back at this fear-mongering outburst by Cynthia Tucker: Our long, hot summer needed another ingredient to induce a fever-like madness in the national psyche: demographic change. Over the last year and a half, many Americans have begun to see a deeper message in President Obama’s inauguration — the […]

Alyssa Milano Loves Her Dodgers

They’re having tough luck this season, playing .500 ball but still nine-and-a-half games behind the Padres in the NL West. Win or lose, our Alyssa remains loyal to Dodger Blue: (Hat-tip: Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress.)

Economics, Politics and Propaganda

If the New York Times is going to add an economist as a columnist, who do you think they’re going to pick? Perhaps someone like Thomas Sowell, whose free-market arguments could balance the neo-Keynesianism of Paul Krugman? Of course not. They bring aboard Peter Orszag, who until recently was Obama’s director of the White House […]

Because It’s Awesome, That’s Why

OK, I don’t have to give you a reason why I’m posting this video, but if you insist on asking . . . (Hat-tip: Quincy City Desk.)

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